Tag: Crossfit open
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5 reasons Why Crossfit is Better Than F45
Crossfit is better than Functional45 (F45) due to its variety of workouts, emphasis on strength, skill development, and competitiveness.
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Countries Represented at The 2021 Crossfit Games
A male athlete from outside of the United States has not won the Crossfit Games since 2009 when Mikko Salo of Finland won. In 2021 there is a great chance that the USA’s streak will be broken as many of the athletes predicted to win it all are from Europe or Canada. On the women’s…
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Necessary Strength in Crossfit: The Games vs Sanctionals vs The Open
Although the Crossfit foundation pyramid, or “theoretical hierarchy of development” looks like this: Many athletes tend to actually place a much higher emphasis on strength when it comes to training for Crossfit competitions, however that may not be the best use of their time. It is true that the stronger you are the easier every…
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A Final Review of The 2020 Crossfit Open Leaderboard + Stats
Before we get into things it would be best to check out our latest post… 2020 Crossfit Open Programming Analysis + Breakdown If you’ve already read that post you would know that a few pretty big changes came to the 2020 Open. Now we’re going to look at how those changes affected the worldwide leaderboard,…
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2020 Crossfit Open Programming Analysis + Breakdown
And just like that the 2020 Crossfit Open has come to an end. As it was the second Open in 2019 we were not sure what to expect and we were still surprised with some of what we saw, and didn’t see. After every competition we like to take a look at the programmed workouts…
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Streat Hoerner 20.5 Split Times
This Thursday 2x Crossfit Games competitor and 2017’s 14th fittest man on Earth Streat Hoerner battled 2x Crossfit Games competitor and 2018’s 9th fittest man on Earth Willy Georges in France for the live announcement of 20.5. For time, partitioned any way:40 muscle-ups80-cal. row120 wall-ball shots, 20-lb. ball to 10 ft. TIME CAP: 20:00 MIN Unfortunately…
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Crossfit Open 20.4 vs 20.3: Which Was Actually Heavier?
For those of us in the Crossfit world that love a heavy barbell we have been spoiled the last couple of weeks with the deadlifts in 20.3 and the clean and jerks in 20.4 Both workouts for the men ended at 315 pounds and both ended at 205 for the women, but one workout was…
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Speed vs Strength: Crossfit Open Workout 20.4 Strategy
Crossfit Open workout 20.4 is a chipper in which the weight on the clean and jerks increase while the reps decrease. This is definitely not the first time a workout like this has been programmed and we actually have a perfect example on how to perform well in this workout no matter where your advantages…
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4 Reasons Why Crossfit Should Use and Allow The Sumo Deadlift
The conventional deadlift has been a staple in Crossfit from the beginning and since then the reps have only gotten higher and the weight heavier. The deadlift also happens to be Crossfit HQ’s favorite movement to test strength during the worldwide Open. In the past 9 years (2011-2019) there have been a total of 8…
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Annie Thorisdóttir 20.1 Split Times
Shortly after new teammates Rich Froning and Scott Panchik went head to head during the 20.1 live Open announcement fellow Crossfit Games veterans Annie Thorisdóttir and Sara Sigmundsdottir took a crack at it, and easily beat both of the men’s times. Both women were able to finish under nine minutes compared to the men’s times…